New Ulm weekly review., 1887-12-07
SuME The NEW s..
Washington News Items.

The attorney.gener has been requested
by Secretary Lamar to bring civil suit
against Neagle & Co, ii, and Nc Hough e.
Casey Of Idaho.for timber trespass.
a friend OF Stevenson Of Illinois, first as
sist tant pos stmaster general, says that how
ever much he may be- lisapp pointed by the
appointment OF + Dickinson as postmaster
general he wlll,n resign.
Army men think that the recommends
tions OF Gen. Sheridan that the army shall
be increased by 5. 900 will be listened to
with more attention this year than before,
and that the anarchist agita tions will con-
vince many Of the necessity OF the increase.
Persons representing eight cities are in
Washington composing for the location OF
one or both or all of the conventions.
They are Boston, New York, Phaadelphia,
Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chicago, Washing
and St. Louis. More cities will be heard
from later, including Omaha and Mime
apolis. s55 s Si f5
Indian Inspector Armstrong has arrived
IN Washington from the Grow agency in
Montana, where he was sent some weeks
ago by Secretary Lamar to Investigate the
Sword Bearer outbreak. The inspector
reports that quiet prevails at the agency
and that the Indians heartily commend the
acGion OF the government in removing the
belNeerent bucks to Fort Smelling.
Within the last few weeks inquiries have
been made in certain quarters by persons
holding official positioa in both England
and q olland as to the proba bilities of the
United States governunent assuming the
Confederate debt. Evidence is at hand to
show THAT a lobby Of unscrupulous indi-
viduais has been organized to delude the
foreign ao!ders into the belief Of the feasi-
blllty OF such q scheme.
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The Baltimore Sun has q dispatch from
Washington in which Senator A! p. Cor
man states positively that tariff reform
bill will be passed by the incoming congress-,
which will cut off certain customs duties
and provide for a reduction in the internal
revenuestax. He advises Mr.. Carlisle TO
decline the speakership and take the chair
manship OF the committee ON ways and
means as leader of the Democratic forces
on the floor. Mr.. Crisp OF Georgia is res.
commended for the speakership.
The report Of John B. Baird, superin-
stendent OF the dead letter office, shows the
number OF pieces OF original mail matter
received during the year ending June 80,
1887, to have been S, s35, 363, IN increase
,of nearly IL. + per cent over the previous
year. In addition to this number there
We're 23O, S16 letters without ine1osures
previously sent to the writer's but failing OF
delivery returned to the office, and 3, ,7O6
letters on hand at the beginning of the
year. making the total number OF pieces
handled 5,578. 9S5, or saore than 1s. 0Go
per diem.
An army retiring board having found
Capt. John T. Morrison, ] 9th cavalry, in
capacitated from active service, the war de-
partment has extended his present leave
OF absence indefinitely. Capt. Morrison
served during the war as private and cor
poral OF Company A, 1st Minnesota infan-
try. and lst lieutenant and adiatant OF the
I'd Minnesota cavalry. In March, 1867,
cavalry; in the following July he was pro-
NOTED 1st lieutenant. and continued in
that grade until December, 1882, when he
received his captaincy.